Journal of Education and Health Promotion

Exploring medical ethics’ implementation challenges: A qualitative study

. Jannat Mashayekhi; . Mahboobeh Khabaz Mafinejad; . Tahereh Changiz; . Hamideh Moosapour; . Pooneh Salari; . Saharnaz Nedjat; . Bagher Larijani

Volume 11, Issue 2 , February 2021, , Pages 1-9

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BACKGROUND: Adherence to medical ethics principles by medical professionals is required toimprove health‑care system’s quality. Recognizing medical ethics’ challenges ... Read More BACKGROUND: Adherence to medical ethics principles by medical professionals is required toimprove health‑care system’s quality. Recognizing medical ethics’ challenges and attempting toresolve them are important in the implementation of medical ethics in practice. This study aimed toexplore such challenges at Iran’s medical sciences universities in 2018.MATERIALS AND METHODS: This descriptive, qualitative study utilized a conventional contentanalysis approach for data analysis. This study was conducted using purposeful sampling fromparticipants with experience in teaching or practicing of medical ethics field, and by consideringmaximum variety of disciplines (e.g., gynecology, internal medicine, surgery, and medical ethics). Thedata were gathered using semi‑structured interviews. The interview guide was designed based onprevious research findings by two members of the research team and contained the main interviewquestions and participants had the opportunity to express their perspectives in detail. Participantswere chosen from clinical and ethical faculty members as well as managers. The data collectionprocess continued until the data saturation stage, beyond which no new information or conceptachieved by continuing interviews.RESULTS: After interviewing 14 faculty members and managers, findings were classified into 4themes, 9 categories, and 42 sub‑categories; four main categories of medical ethics challenges areaffected by cognitive, educational, practical, and structural factors, respectively.CONCLUSION: This study suggested that medical ethics’ cognitive and educational challenges canalleviate using educational programs intended for improving qualitative and quantitative aspects ofmedical ethics teaching for medical professionals ranging from students to faculty members. Medicalethics’ structural and practical challenges are within policymaking and scheduling activities dealt withthrough future researches by health‑care system’s managers and planners.

Strengths of Iran for internationalization of medical sciences education

. Habibolah Rezaei; . Asadolah Mosavi; . Alireza Yousefi; . Bagher Larijani; . Nima Rezaei; . Reza Dehnavieh; . Peyman Adibi

Volume 10, Issue 4 , April 2020, , Pages 1-10

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INTRODUCTION: Internationalization of higher education involves mutual exchanges as well as aconsensus based. Political, economic, sociocultural, and scientific reasons recommend the ... Read More INTRODUCTION: Internationalization of higher education involves mutual exchanges as well as aconsensus based. Political, economic, sociocultural, and scientific reasons recommend the need tomove toward the internationalization of higher education. The current study highlights the strengthsof the internationalization of Iran’s medical sciences education.MATERIALS AND METHODS: This descriptive exploratory study was carried out in 2016–2017 inIran. The techniques used for data collection included review of articles, interview with subject experts,and the focus group and the nominal technique group to explore the views of various stakeholders.The data were analyzed with the qualitative content analysis method.RESULTS: The inductive qualitative content analysis of all data generated 13 categories and 88subcategories. The categories were geographical and geostrategic position of Iran; the historical,cultural, religious, and tourist attractions of Iran; the security of Iran; priority to internationalizationpolicies and programs in Iran’s macro plans; the existence of regulations, laws, and approvals forinternational activities; same language with neighboring and regional countries; the low cost ofstudying and living in Iran; the ability of Iranian faculty members and experts for internationalization;the background, reputation, and the progress of medical education, health, and care in Iran; thecheaper forces of Iran and their welcome to foreigners; the existence of motivation, zeal, and belieffor internationalization; the existence of proper infrastructure; and the existence of a suitable capacityfor internationalization.CONCLUSIONS: Iran has some positive points that can be used to promote international activities,provided it does some good advertising in this regard. It is suggested that the challenges, opportunities,and threats to Iran’s internationalization should be collated from the perspective of the variousstakeholders.

Obstacles of professional behavior among medical trainees: A qualitative study from Iran (2018)

. Neda Yavari; . Fariba Asghari; . Zahra Shahvari; . Saharnaz Nedjat; . Bagher Larijani

Volume 9, Issue 10 , October 2019, , Pages 1-11

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INTRODUCTION: Despite all efforts that have been made to promote professional behavior amongmedical trainees, unfortunately, reports from medical schools around the world confirm the ... Read More

Internationalization or globalization of higher education

. Habibolah Rezaei; . Alireza Yousefi; . Bagher Larijani; . Reza Dehnavieh; . Nima Rezaei; . Peyman Adibi

Volume 8, Issue 1 , January 2018, , Pages 1-15

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INTRODUCTION: Studies about globalization and internationalization demonstrate different attitudesin explaining these concepts. Since there is no consensus among Iranian specialists ... Read More INTRODUCTION: Studies about globalization and internationalization demonstrate different attitudesin explaining these concepts. Since there is no consensus among Iranian specialists about theseconcepts, the purpose of this study is to explain the concepts of internationalization and globalizationin Iran.MATERIALS AND METHODS: This study is a systematic review done in the first half of 2016.To explain the concept of globalization and internationalization, articles in Scientific InformationD atabase, Magiran database, and Google Scholar were searched with the keywords such asglobalization, scientific exchange, international cooperation, curriculum exchange, student exchange,faculty exchange, multinational cooperation, transnational cooperation, and collaborative research.Articles, used in this study, were in Persian and were devoted to internationalization and globalizationbetween 2001 and 2016. The criterion of discarding the articles was duplicity.RESULTS: As many as 180 Persian articles were found on this topic. After discarding repetitivearticles, 64 remained. Among those, 39 articles mentioned the differences between globalizationand internationalization. Definitions of globalization were categorized in four categories, includingglobalization, globalizing, globalization of higher education, and globalizing of higher education.Definitions about internationalization were categorized in five categories such as internationalization,internationalization of higher education, internationalization of the curriculum, internationalization ofcurriculum studies, and internationalization of curriculum profession.CONCLUSION: The spectrum of the globalization of higher education moves from dissonance andmultipolarization to unification and single polarization of the world. One end of the spectrum, whichis unification and single polarization of the world, is interpreted as globalization. The other side of thespectrum, which is dissonance and multipolarization, is interpreted as globalizing. The definition ofinternalization is the same as that of globalizing. In other words, it is possible to say that internalizationis similar to globalizing but different from globalization.

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Exploring medical ethics’ implementation challenges: A qualitative study

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Strengths of Iran for internationalization of medical sciences education

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Obstacles of professional behavior among medical trainees: A qualitative study from Iran (2018)

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Internationalization or globalization of higher education

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